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Soap Star Stats D-E-F
Soap Star Stats D-E-F
Stuart Damon — born Stuart Michael Zonis — always loved making people laugh. The son of struggling Russian immigrants who came to America during the Bolshevik Revolution and settled in Brooklyn, NY, Damon become heavily involved in musical theater as a child.
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Bryan R. Dattilo may be best known for playing DAYS's Lucas — the character he's portrayed for over a decade — but the Kankakee, IL native got his start in the biz when he was a child. After his parents divorced, his mom, Peggy, moved him and his siblings back and forth between Florida and Beverly Hills, California.
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Doug Davidson
was a marine biology major at Occidental College before venturing into acting. On May 15, 1978, Davidson assumed the role of Paul Williams on Y&R, where he would meet his future wife, Cindy, who has portrayed two roles on the show. He received his first Emmy nomination for Outstanding Lead Actor in 2003, on the eve of his 25th anniversary with Y&R.
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Born and raised in southern California, Eileen Davidson started her career as a model in Mexico City and California. She was nominated for a Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress in 2003, as well as a Soap Opera Digest Award for Favorite Return in 1999.
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Trent Dawson has been performing for as long as he's been walking — his mother started him on the stage early in his hometown of Baton Rouge, LA. But he tried to abandon the actor's life by studying for a year at Boston University. Then, he impulsively took off for Paris and ended up in Crete on the migrant worker circuit.
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Considered one of daytime's finest actors (if six Emmy wins are any indication), as well one of the most press shy, Justin Deas has carved a notable career in the medium. He was born in Connellsville, PA, but due to his father's travels, lived in such diverse places as Mexico City and Tehran, Iran. He got his undergraduate degree at The College of William and Mary and then studied drama under John Houseman at Juilliard.
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Born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Kamar de los Reyes moved to Las Vegas at the age of two and was surrounded by a family of musicians. His father, Walfredo de los Reyes, is a renowned Cuban drummer and percussionist, and his older brothers, Daniel and Walfredo, Jr., are also professional percussionists.
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Kassie DePaiva's interest in the arts started when she was still in grade school. She first took to the stage when she was in the fifth grade. Throughout her childhood and teen years, she continued to sing in her church choir, participate in school plays and she was involved in class government. After graduating high school, DePaiva attended Indiana University and worked at Opryland in Nashville, TN.
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He may play handsome ladies' man Brad Carlton on Y&R, but portrayer Don Diamont admits that even he went through an awkward stage when he was younger. Still, the New York, NY, native eventually began a brief modeling career ("I didn't like standing there for hours on end having my picture taken."), and then switched to acting.
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Charles Divins pictured himself as a hospital administrator, but the road to that career went in a very different direction when a modeling agent approached the Armani Exchange salesman at a Dallas mall. Divins tried modeling while attending community college.
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The shy, youngest daughter of six children in a strict Irish Catholic family, Ellen Dolan was raised in a small town in Iowa — her father was a "country doctor" — but was so intrigued by the idea of New York City that she joined the Girl Scouts in high school so that she could visit Tiffany's.
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For over two decades, Jerry Douglas reigned in Genoa City as Abbott patriarch John Abbott. Born Gerald Rubenstein and raised in Chelsea, Massachusetts, Douglas went to Brandeis University to earn a degree in economics.
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Lesley-Anne Down was born and raised in Putney, which is located on the Thames-side part of London. She responded to a newspaper ad looking for child models when she was 10 and appeared in ads for Clairol, Clarks shoes and Caress soap.
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Raised just outside of Dallas, Texas boy Josh Duhon attended Collin Community College and Southern Methodist University. In his spare time, he enjoys boxing, true to his character Logan's bad boy image, and has been known to ride motorcycles.
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Jessica Dunphy lives in her own apartment in New York City which she decorated herself. In fact, if she wasn't an actress she would be an interior decorator.
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Marj (Marjorie) Dusay never imagined a life in the spotlight. Growing up the second of six children in a large Irish/Bohemian family, she was more interested in academics and athletics than theatrics.
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Raised in Warner Robins, GA, Bobbie Eakes originally moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career in music, but before long, she got her first break in the acting biz: a role on LAVERNE & SHIRLEY. She didn't give up on singing, though, and became a member of the band Big Trouble, which performed as the house band on the syndicated series COMEDY BREAK.
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Melissa Claire Egan grew up in Westchester County, N.Y., with her mother, father and two brothers. She began auditioning for small roles and commercials at a young age, but had no dreams of being a child star.
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Born the third of five children, Beth Ehlers grew up on Roosevelt Island in New York City. She was discovered at age 10, when she was spotted by a talent agent while making her acting debut in a church play. Her first big television role was alongside the legendary Bette Davis in a TV movie titled FAMILY REUNION.
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Jane Elliot, who by her own admission maintains a very private life, was born and raised in Manhattan. At the age of 31, Elliot created the role of the hell-raising Quartermaine daughter, Tracy.
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Born and raised in Boston, MA, John Enos joined the cast of YOUNG AND RESTLESS in April 2003 as gentlemen's club owner Bobby Marsino. Naturally, his favorite sports teams are the New England Patriots, the Boston Red Sox and the Boston Bruins.
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Born and raised in the Midwest, Andrea Evans first shined in the spotlight in beauty pageants. By age 10, she was doing regional theater and commercials. The bright high school student skipped a grade, graduated early and attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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Though Judi Evans was born in Montebello, CA and grew up in Monterey Park, it would be accurate to add that the actress grew up professionally on daytime. Evans made her television debut on the CBS drama GUIDING LIGHT in 1983 as the troubled Beth Raines. Her performance won her the 1984 Daytime Emmy Award as Outstanding Supporting Actress.
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A California girl, Mary Beth Evans was voted Best Actress by her fourth-grade classmates — and she never looked back. After several guest-starring prime-time roles as "the girl from Wisconsin," she landed the part of DAYS sweetheart Kayla Brady, which would make her daytime royalty, thanks to her chemistry with Stephen Nichols (Steve, "Patch").
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Jennifer Ferrin won the role of Jennifer on AS THE WORLD TURNS within a week of graduating from the North Carolina School of Arts with a degree in drama. She was no stranger to television, however, having played Esther, the younger version of Vanessa Redgrave's character in THE LOCKET, a Hallmark Hall of Fame film.
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Susan Flannery was raised in New York City in a brownstone on East 51st Street. Flannery knew she wanted to be an actress from a young age, and she went on to receive her BFA in theater at Stevens College in Missouri, as well as attended graduate school before venturing out to Hollywood.
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A native of Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, Connie Fletcher got her start as a performer in the living room of her childhood home. "I would subject my parents to hours and hours of me dancing around to Paula Abdul," she laughs.
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Forester, who was born Nicole Theresa Schmidt, grew up in the sleepy suburbs of Michigan. After graduating from a performance arts high school outside of Detroit, the aspiring actress set her sights on the stage. She spent a year studying musical theater at Western Michigan University before packing her bags to finish her degree at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in Los Angeles.
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Genie Francis, daughter of Canadian actor Ivor Francis, was born on May 26 in Englewood, New Jersey. At just the young age of 14, shortly after a guest appearance on the ABC series FAMILY, she landed the role of Laura Spencer on GENERAL HOSPITAL.
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Adrienne Frantz began performing at a young age, immersing herself in theater, voice and dance lessons while in her hometown of Mount Clemens, Michigan. At age sixteen she headed east, where she enrolled in a Medford, New Jersey high school and pursued voice and acting lessons in New York City.
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The much beloved Eileen Fulton — "Miss Eileen" to some, Margaret McLarty as a child — grew up the daughter of a Methodist minister in Asheville, NC. And while she was a PK (preacher's kid), she wasn't destined for that profession. Fulton majored in music and minored in dramatics at Greensboro College in North Carolina.
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